Carotid Stents and Stroke

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Carotid Stents may raise patient risk for another stroke Confirming an earlier report in February, 2010, The International Carotid Stenting Study (ICSS) study showed a continued higher event rate of stroke, death, or peri-procedural MI with stenting vs. surgery for symptomatic carotid stenosis. (ICSS, which compared carotid artery stenting with carotid endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic carotid artery stenosis, showed …